The women who helped America’s space efforts reflect on their often unheralded roles — and the indignities they endured.
Retired astronaut Wally Schirra spoke for the world with his commentary for CBS News during the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969: “Thank you, television, for letting us watch this one.”While working as an engineer and raising two children, Darden studied mechanical engineering part-time for a decade at George Washington University until she earned her doctorate.“I was scared, because I knew the class was going to be all males,” she said.
“We talked about what lessons can you learn from this,” Darden said, and her message was “how women did good work instead of complaining.” “It was a traffic decision,” she said at her home near the NASA campus. “I happen to think it was fate.”She came of age “mothering” the first men in space, veterans like Shepard, 15 to 20 years her senior, whom she addressed as “sir.” It didn’t occur to her that women could be astronauts too.But the country and NASA were changing.
“I looked at them, and I was looking at myself in a different role,” she said. “And they came in seeing us as their equals.” Although Resnik respected her expertise, the astronaut also pushed her to go back to school. “She said, ‘You’re way too smart to be in this position,’” Stottlemyer recalled.
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